Re: Which is the best choice, Oracle8i or Oracle9i for Oracle11i App?

rudy_at_ecogreenoleo.co.id (Rudy Susanto) wrote in message news:<76281730.0307012000.259c5c6c_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> I am in dilemma now, our oracle app implementor suggest us to use the
> oracle 8i for the database. As long as i know the oracle 8i will be
> desupport by oracle corp. after 31 dec 2003.
>
> For other information, we bought 2 servers Sun SPARC machine, one for
> the database and one for the application server.
>
> Do you have any suggestions for me which is the best for us, to use
> the oracle8i or oracle9i?
>
> Does anyone have similar problem like me?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rudy Susanto

Evidently the vendor has no experience with 9i. This is usually the gist of the message 'we don't support the most recent version of the database, and we didn't test it'.
As 8i is going to be desupported soon, I think you should urge the vendor to cover for not running on a supported version, ie the vendor should pay for getting ECS. You would do better choosing a different vendor or change jobs.

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 06:15:57 CDT